But to echo what Vladinator said below, if it doesn't have mod_perl, it won't work. Scoop uses quite a few features from mod_perl, and unless you're intending to port scoop...

I understand that.  It's a gorgeous product and it's got me drooling.  I love the motivation behind it - community.  

>> Naturally we'd love it if people used scoop,
>> but we're not hung up on increasing scoop usage,

Yes, and regardless of the installer, the customization that it begs for limits its deployment.  As such, you either need your own server or you have your choice of about 4 hosting companies.  I'd love to see more scoop on the web.

>> them's fightin' words, around here ;-)
>> Just out of curiosity, why do you prefer php over perl?

Well, I've played with Perl only a little bit.  I found it's extremely powerful, but so specific and "dirty lookin" that it wasn't fun to write.  PHP is sooo easy, sooo fast, and so clean.  I can write a powerful, useful PHP script in a few minutes.  What are you doing with Perl that PHP couldn't do?  I hope I'm not rehashing an old debate...

I have to say, my gripe with Nuke is that it has all these persistent database connections.  If I were a better PHP programmer, I'd be writing PHPscoop right now.  Not meant as "fightin' words," but, mmm....maybe a little ;)